Re:Liquid water 'lake' revealed on Mars
by dredmorbius on Thursday July 26, 2018 @04:40AM
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I can point directly to a close friend who'd died of a particulaar forrm of cancer in the 1980s.
There's been no effective advance in therapy since then.
There hadn't been any since the late 1950s.
Some conditions are simply resistant to improved theerapies.
(CRISPR or similar direct genetic editing might break the logjam. But it's been a long time. And my friend remains very dead.)
Rather than high-tech aadvances, increased and consistently available medical care and public health measures would be vastly more effective. And always have been.
There's been no effective advance in therapy since then.
There hadn't been any since the late 1950s.
Some conditions are simply resistant to improved theerapies.
(CRISPR or similar direct genetic editing might break the logjam. But it's been a long time. And my friend remains very dead.)
Rather than high-tech aadvances, increased and consistently available medical care and public health measures would be vastly more effective. And always have been.